The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-01-21
THE Farm.
The Maryland Farmers Convention

The Maryland Farmers Convention.
This representative organization Of
farmers is asserting its prominence and
usefulness every year As its annual
conventions come round, the difficulties
the farming interest labors under by
discrimination in national and state
legislation against them, or what
amounts to the same thing, favoring
other interests while that of agriculture
is ignored in both State aud National
councils, is laid before the agricultural
class in reports submitted by commit
tees appointed for the purpose, and by
this means statistical basis is provid.
ed on which to build, and the wants of
the farming interest is brought before
Congress aud the Legislature in definite
shape.
GA Wednesday 18th inst. the annual
convention convened in Baltimore,
President Hamilton in the Chair, w
B. Sands, publisher of the american
Farmer, Secretary, read the minutes
of the last meeting and the president
made the following address
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Gov. Hamilton being called on for an
address said that nothing he could say
would promote the cause or enlighten
the audience. He did not come pre-.
pared to make any formal address, and
more information might be derived
from general discussion. He was graf
fled to see so many present. The or.
ganization was extending and would
continue, not as thing of year but
Of successive years. Last year was bad
enough for the agricultural interests,
and they were probably worse off to day.
No class was so much depressed as the
aericu tural and mechanical interests
There were no prices for wheat, and
corn and tobacco, and cattle were threat,
ened with disease, being high to buy
and low to sell. "It is not encouraging
but we can't afford to give up. You
don't suppose that this government can
afford to make you all ofice.holders,
with high pay and nothing to do. We
must depend on our land and try to
make both ends meet. We must meas
ure our coat by the length and breadth
of our cloth. We must encourage lab.
or and economy. If the agriculturists
and mechanics look to the government
to give them living, they will go down
and the government will go down with
them Applause.]
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTAL STA
TON.
Reports were called for from com
mittees, and Col. H. Kyd Douglas, o.
the committee on agricultural expert
mental station, reported that after ex
aiming the laws of Connecticut, New
Jersey and North Carolina and Other
States on this subject, the committee
had prepared bill and sent it to An
napolis. No bi was passed, but &
measure was put through providing fol
board of examination to examine anG
report on the subject to the next Legis
lature. The committee is to consist Of
two named by the Governor, one by
the Johns Hopkins University, one by
the Maryland Agricultural Association
and one by thea Frmers' Convention
The committee had also prepared bill
on fertilizers, and one on that subject
was passed.
Capt A. j. Smith, of the Maryland
Agricultural College, explained that
the Hatch bill now before Congress ap
propriated SIS, 900 for an agricultural
experimental station in each state. The
bill would soon come up, and very like.
ly would pass. c. Lyon Rogers moved
to petition Congress to pass the bill
Referring to the failure of the Mary
land Legislature to pass such bill, he
said the convention should call the leg.
islators to account, and see that the
farmers interests are attended to. The
motion was referred to the committee
on resolutions.
DISEASES AMONG CATTLE.
T. Alexander Seth, of the committee
on contagious diseases among live stock,
reported that the contagious diseases
now prevalent in Maryland are pleuro-
pneumonia in cattle, swine plague or
hog cholera in swine, and CHAMBERS in
horses. Pleuro- pneumonia seems to
have its permanent habitation in South
ern Russia, from whence it found its